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by olavk 8y ago
I had a history book in school which basically attempted to tell history backward. It didn't work very well in my opinion. The problem is, telling history backwards makes for en extremely "whiggish" view of history where ever
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by olavk 8y ago
I just asked for a link to the Stack Overflow harassment survey in question because I was curious. To be honest I did have some doubt about the validity of the interpretation since the comment implied that users on Stack Overflow are anonym
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by olavk 8y ago
So you have no idea if this alleged documentation even exist? But you still felt you needed to assert that those "not actual harassment" cases (e.g. women interpreting "lack of praise" as harassment etc.) do exist, and w
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by olavk 8y ago
How do you know? Not disputing your claim, just curious where you get your numbers.
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Yes I understand that, but... what cases? The comment at the top of this thread states "if a professor criticizes a woman's paper, she might interpret that as an attack on her gender, even if it isn't" - but this sounds
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by olavk 8y ago
I'm sure you are right... but just for my curiosity can you provide a link to this mysterious survey? Apparently it was linked in a deleted comment.
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by olavk 8y ago
You really really want to believe harassment is not real, but as TFA shows it is a very real problem. I don't know what survey you are referring to which apparently proves harassment is not real?
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by olavk 8y ago
Do you have a link? People are not necessarily anonymous on SO, so harassment could be real.
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What are you referring to with the "even when anonymous" comment?
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Cases like this? What makes you think the cases described here are not "real"?
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by olavk 8y ago
I think it is somewhat hindsight bias to think Alexander would even care about Italy. Alexander was concerned about conquering the Persian Empire which was vastly larger and more wealthy than Italy. At the hight of the Roman Empire, the ric
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by olavk 8y ago
In my anecdotal experience, people in Eastern Europe (former Warsaw Pact countries) are extremely cynical towards politicians and the political system while Scandinavians in general have a lot of trust in the system even if they mistrust so
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by olavk 8y ago
> Is it not obvious that politicians don't want to bust their biggest (potential) campaign contributors for GDPR violations? In Europe, members of the judicial branch are not up for direct popular election and therefore does not cam
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by olavk 8y ago
Not sure I like the suggested autocomplete on a string though. But using namespaces or similar like Shape.Triangle... would autocomplete better. I know that Microsoft deliberately designs the .net API's to facilitate exploring an API b
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by olavk 8y ago
That is really interesting reading! Maybe you should submit it as a separate story?
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Continuations can be used to implement higher-level constructs like exceptions, generators, async calls and so on. For a language like Scheme which prefers a few powerful primitives, it gives the user the power to implement such constructs
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by olavk 8y ago
Normans descended from the Norse (hence the name) but the Normans adopted the French language which is the point here.
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by olavk 8y ago
I think you are mixing up Norsemen and Normans. Norsemen (Scandinavians, sometimes called Vikings) spoke a Germanic language (called old Norse, the ancestor of current Scandinavian languages), while the Normans spoke French. English have be
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by olavk 8y ago
I'm starting to think you are not arguing in good faith. This is like saying a ban on using illegally obtained private photos is "a blanket ban on most photos".
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That is in turn called a strawman. And there are many different opinions in the EU regarding the GDPR. I think HN users are non-representative of the general public since they tend to be a lot more concerned about privacy issues - and that
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by olavk 8y ago
> Sounds awfully cultish This is some high-strung rhetoric. And claiming GDPR outlaws machine learning is just FUD. ML performed on personal data collected without the user's consent is illegal - but so is doing anything with il
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by olavk 8y ago
I guess they are just saying you are a communist if you like GDPR. Maybe even a Stalinist.
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by olavk 8y ago
> political reasons like a eurocrat taking a disliking to a particular company Are you just making this stuff up, or has this actually happened?
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by olavk 8y ago
I tried to learn AppleScript at one point because it had to do some automation on a Mac. It is an exceedingly confusing language, because the syntax does not clearly reflect the underlying semantic and processing model. The English-like syn
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by olavk 8y ago
This is also why HTML has moved to a "living standard". To avoid versions. The philosophy is to only introduce backwards-compatible changes so everything can be handled by a single engine.
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by olavk 8y ago
In practice, browsers does not recognize HTML versions. All HTML is handled by the same engine. This is one of the reasons HTML has moved to a living standard - the versioning was purely an artifact of the standard document and did not corr
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by olavk 8y ago
This is where the analogy to books breaks down. If you have a book you care about you can take care of it. If you care about some website where the owner is long dead, there is probably nothing you can do to maintain it, except keep using a
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by olavk 8y ago
Monkey-patching is not in itself a problem though since it just overrides the built-in functionality. The problem in shooshgate was (if I understand correctly) specifically monkey-pathing Array and relying on the added property to be enum
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by olavk 8y ago
Yes, but security is also the only reason users would accept losing access to certain websites - and then only grudgingly! Tell a regular browser user they will lose access to their favorite website forever because JavaScript developers pre
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by olavk 8y ago
It doesn't matter who you put on a committee - if a web standard break a significant number of sites then browser vendors will simply not implement that standard. If they did, users would stop using that browser. Why would anyone use a

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